Improvement in oil-cans



F. 'sKlNNm oil-can. 1

- Y Pgtepted Nov.- 9,1869.

LFETERS. PHOWLITHOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

nitefl Staten met -Glllylilze;

Letters Patent No. 96,626,datcd November 9, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN OIL-CANE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN SKINNER, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga, and Statev of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Cups; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and complete description of the same,`

reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making part of this specification.

Object mul Nature of thc I aven-tion.

lhe object of ythis invention is to return the drip from the nozzle of au oil-can, thereby preventing a waste of oil-and soiling the table on whichthe can may stand.

' Drawings.

lFigure l is a side view of the can.

Figure 2, a transverse vertical section.

Likeletters of reference refer to like parts in the different views. -f

. Description.

Oil-cans, as usuallyconstructed, retain more or less oil about the nozzle of the spout after being used, which trickles down the side of the spout and can, thereby not only repeatedly wasting small quantities of oil, but it soils the table on which the can is placed, and also the can, making it dirtyr and unclean to handle.

Io avoid this waste and uncleanness, l form a recess, O, in the cap B of the can F, 'between its outer edge and its intersection with the baise 0f the spout A. At any convenient point in the bottom of said recess, I insert a tube, D, of small calibre, and thread it with a wick, E, of cotton, or other like material.

Said tube extends down into the body of the can to any desired depth, the distance being of no material consequence.

Operation'.

The drop of oil adhering to the nozzle on flowing down the outside of the spout, falls into the recess of the cap, where, by the absorbent nature of the wick, it is reeonveyed back into the can, and thus saved li'om waste, and from" soiling the outside of the can 'and table.

It is t'ound by practical experience, that though the gravity and the absorbent nature of the wick, when the can stands erect, it will not, on inverting the can, flow out of the tube, from the same cause, for the supposed reason that the gravitating tendency `of the oil when the can is inverted, is resisted by the pressure ofthe atn'xosphere in its efforts to reach the inside of the can, toll the vacuum caused by the exit ofthe oil through the spout.

By this simple device, the can is kept clean, and no oil wasted, thereby making the can more useful, economical, and tidy in its habits.

Should the 'tube be used without a wick, the oil is liable to be ejected from the tubeon applying a pressure to the bottoni of the can, but which, it will be v obvious, it cannotl do wick. A

That vI claim as my improvement, and desire to sewh'en the, tube is flledwith cure by Letters Patent, is-

The cap B, provided with a recess, C, tube I), and

wick E, as arranged, in combination with an oil-cupA J. H. BURRIDGE, FRED'K. A. BRAND. 

